Classic Poem

“Just Manitou ! Oh may the boat
  That bears him to the spirit land
For ages on those black waves float
  Which catch no light from off its strand,
Float blindly there, still laboring on
  Toward shores 'tis never doom'd to reach;
 Float there till time itself is gone,
  And when again 'twould seek the beach
From which with that lone soul it started,
 Baffling let that before it flee,
Till hope of rest hath all departed,
 And still when that last hope is gone,
 A guideless thing, float on, float on!